Find Your Awesome Today: A New Empowering Company

“The mission behind Find Your Awesome Today LLC is to empower people, especially young girls and women of all ages, to take control of what surrounds them.” Find Your Awesome Today! is nothing short of phenomenal; it is a retail company based in middle Tennessee that provides clothing featuring the image of a confident woman winking.Founder, Tori Weiss of Columbia, Tennessee, has been working constantly to spread the positive message to those around her and help people to find their “awesome” no matter the circumstance.

Tori first got the idea for Find Your Awesome Today! while going through physical therapy. She had ruptured her bicep doing an exercise she had performed perfectly many times before. While the menial tasks of PT were frustrating in the beginning, her incredible determination and positivity helped her to turn it around. She explains, “Something very important I realized during this period of time was that my "awesome" will be very different from day to day. Accepting that this is okay has helped me persevere through many challenges.” She calls it a “humbling experience” and her inspiring story is already helping people to find their awesome.

Today she is “making the most out of every opportunity…to talk with people about the message behind Find Your Awesome Today!” Tori encourages people to share their experiences and find the courage to take action and make the most of every situation. With the help of her talented niece Erin, Tori has made Find Your Awesome Today! T-shirts with multiple designs. The original features a woman running and winking “as if to say ‘I’ve got this.’” With the t-shirts, Tori’s idea for a company that would help to empower young girls and women blossomed and became real. In today’s world it’s important to instill confidence in youthful America, particularly young girls; Find Your Awesome Today! is doing just that and it has been a tremendous addition to Columbia’s community.

There is a Find Your Awesome Today LLC Facebook Page that encourages people to share their stories about finding their Awesome. Tori also plans to post on the page to reach out to women of all ages, especially those that may need a nudge to take action and find their Awesome. She encourages people to support the Find Your Awesome Today! message by paying attention to what surrounds them. “If you are a student who notices a classmate who eats lunch alone or sits in the back of the room by them self or you work in an office and have a co-worker who seems to be struggling please try to have a conversation and make a connection with that person so they will not feel alone,” she says, “There are many ways to share the Find Your Awesome Today! message with others. As Ellen DeGeneres says at the close of every show, ‘be kind to one another.’” Helping those around you to find their Awesome can help you find yours as well.

To learn more about Tori and Find Your Awesome Today! you can visit the website FindYourAwesomeToday.com, as well as liking the Facebook page and sharing it with your community.

College As Told By Junie B. Jones

The Junie B. Jones series was a big part of my childhood. They were the first chapter books I ever read. On car trips, my mother would entertain my sister and me by purchasing a new Junie B. Jones book and reading it to us. My favorite part about the books then, and still, are how funny they are. Junie B. takes things very literally, and her (mis)adventures are hilarious. A lot of children's authors tend to write for children and parents in their books to keep the attention of both parties. Barbara Park, the author of the Junie B. Jones series, did just that. This is why many things Junie B. said in Kindergarten could be applied to her experiences in college, as shown here.

When Junie B. introduces herself hundreds of times during orientation week:

“My name is Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all." (Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, p. 1)

When she goes to her first college career fair:

"Yeah, only guess what? I never even heard of that dumb word careers before. And so I won't know what the heck we're talking about." (Junie B. Jones and her Big Fat Mouth, p. 2)

When she thinks people in class are gossiping about her:

“They whispered to each other for a real long time. Also, they kept looking at me. And they wouldn't even stop." (Junie B., First Grader Boss of Lunch, p. 66)

When someone asks her about the library:

“It's where the books are. And guess what? Books are my very favorite things in the whole world!" (Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, p. 27)

When she doesn't know what she's eating at the caf:

“I peeked inside the bread. I stared and stared for a real long time. 'Cause I didn't actually recognize the meat, that's why. Finally, I ate it anyway. It was tasty...whatever it was." (Junie B., First Grader Boss of Lunch, p. 66)

15 Thing Only Early 2000's Kids Will Understand

This is it early 2000's babies, a compilation finally made for you. This list is loaded with things that will make you swoon with nostalgia.

1. Not being accepted by the late 90's kids.

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Contrary to what one may think, late 90's and early 00's kids had the same childhood, but whenever a 00's kid says they remember something on an "only 90's kids will understand" post they are ridiculed.

2. Fortune tellers.

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Every day in elementary school you would whip one of these bad boys out of your desk, and proceed to tell all of your classmates what lifestyle they were going to live and who they were going to marry.

3.Bunnicula

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You could never read this book past 8 o'clock at night out of fear that your beloved pet rabbit would come after you.

4. Silly bands.

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You vividly remember begging your parents to buy you $10 worth of cheap rubber bands that vaguely resembles the shape of an everyday object.

5. Parachutes.

The joy and excitement that washed over you whenever you saw the gym teacher pull out the huge rainbow parachute. The adrenaline that pumped through your veins whenever your gym teacher tells you the pull the chute under you and sit to make a huge "fort".